Unsolved murder: Korean-American widow’s quest to find her husband’s killer takes strange turns
- A US$100,000 cash drop, a mysterious witness and a private detective - hunt for Yong Suk Yun’s killers as baffling as his murder
- Widow whose American dream was shattered by death of her husband and business partner wins damages from man she hired to solve Yun’s violent death
Sun Hui Jung called the Virginia detective on most Mondays and Fridays for nearly five years. Sometimes she even waited outside the police station, hoping in vain for news of a break in the search for her husband’s killer.
Jung finally hired a private investigator to help. In May 2015, when he slipped her an affidavit over coffee at a Whole Foods Market, in northern Virginia, in the United States, Jung was overwhelmed. She nervously scanned the statement in Korean, unspooling a tale of murder and money.
It was purportedly written by a chauffeur named Guen Suk Yoo, who said he had driven his employer and two other men to the large Fairfax County home Jung shared with her husband, Yong Suk Yun, 61, on the day of the slaying in 2010.
The statement said that three passengers entered through an open garage door and that the chauffeur heard quarrelling and screaming. Two of the men then sped off in Yun’s gold Lexus SUV, before his employer emerged with a paper bag. A woman who had been inside the home was with him.
Yoo left with his employer and the woman, but members of both parties rendezvoused later. The employer then split US$40,000 in cash among the chauffeur and the other two men, according to the statement.
Jung was convinced that the affidavit held the key to solving her husband’s case. David Park, the private investigator, had somehow succeeded where detectives had hit only dead ends.
